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26-08-2022 10.00

Have you wondered why US school buses are yellow?

(Pernahkah Anda bertanya-tanya mengapa bus sekolah di AS berwarna kuning?)

In the past, school transportation had no rules, and children walked or rode horse-drawn wagons to school. Later, some districts instilled patriotism with red, white, and blue busses, but the colors changed with Frank Cyr.

(Di masa lalu, transportasi sekolah tidak memiliki aturan, dan anak-anak berjalan atau naik kereta kuda ke sekolah. Belakangan, beberapa distrik menanamkan patriotisme lewat bus merah, putih, dan biru, tetapi warnanya berubah oleh Frank Cyr.)

Cyr was a professor at Columbia University, and in 1939, he organized a conference on the school bus. Teachers, transportation experts, engineers, and paint specialists wrote with 42 pages of school bus regulations. They decided to use yellow because black letters were easy to see on a yellow background, and yellow stood out in bad weather. The color is now officially known as national school bus glossy yellow.

(Cyr adalah seorang profesor di Universitas Columbia, dan pada tahun 1939, dia mengorganisir sebuah konferensi tentang bus sekolah. Guru, ahli transportasi, insinyur, dan ahli cat menulis peraturan bus sekolah berisi 42 halaman. Mereka memutuskan untuk menggunakan warna kuning karena huruf hitam mudah dilihat dengan latar belakang kuning, dan kuning menonjol dalam cuaca buruk. Sekarang warna ini resmi dikenal sebagai bus sekolah nasional kuning mengkilap.)

Every day in the US, 480,000 school buses drive children to school. The federal law doesn’t require all busses to be yellow; however, safety experts recommend it.

(Setiap hari di AS, 480.000 bus sekolah mengantar anak-anak ke sekolah. Undang-undang federal tidak mengharuskan semua bus berwarna kuning; namun, para ahli keamanan merekomendasikan warna ini.)

Kata-kata sulit: instill (menanamkan), patriotism (patriotisme), glossy (mengkilap).

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